At the point when explorers come to Africa, they are most amped up for participating in safari activities that are equipped for spiking the adrenaline surge even inside a typical vacationer. In the African Safari activities, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is the best one since achieving the summit of world’s most astounding free-standing mountain is incredibly fulfilling and whatever you are going to see and learn en route is out stunning. As you are voyaging most of the way around the globe for this climbing experience, then why not make it a large portion likewise taking a safari after the trip is finished. Truly, other than Kilimanjaro, there are a few world-class national stops in Northern Tanzania.

Here presenting, the thing that climbers can anticipate from a combo pack:-

What To Expect On A Kili Hike And Safari

Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro itself is a life-changing event but after combining it with an African Wildlife Safari makes the trip something truly miraculous & awesome:-

1) Trekkers can visit the Maasai villages & stand on one of the highest points on the earth. While on game drives, you can encounter both the predator as well as the prey on the plains as well as watching jaw-dropping views of freezing glaciers & mountains.

2) Besides all that quality oriented accommodations, going with Nature Bound Africa guides & countless unforgettable experiences are what any traveller can expect when combining Kilimanjaro climb with an African safari.

Exotic Wildlife In Tanzania

The exotic wildlife inside the national parks of Tanzania will open the door containing an unexplored world.

1) While on the African Safari Tours the tourists can watch the Tanzanian guides using their immense encyclopaedic knowledge about the areas they explore. Whether it is enjoying a hot air balloon or game driving through the Serengeti, visitors will learn a lot about Tanzania’s endemic species after going through the Kilimanjaro climb.

2) Interestingly, even while climbing Kilimanjaro many hikers will be able to spot tree hyraxes, Colobus monkeys as well as agama lizards, Hartlaub’s turacos & other rare forms of wildlife.

3) There is no end to exotic wildlife viewing while on African Safari in Tanzania. It is also a perfect way to view game such as the Big Five -lions, elephants, buffalo, leopard & rhino. In addition to that, you can also see secretary birds, bushbuck, Zebra & wildebeest.

Because Of It Will Save Money

Now signing up for such a combo tour also saves a lot of money.

1) Off course, combining two holidays into one will save you the cost associated with flying back to your home later. For instance, someone living in Australia, US & Europe will have to incur a huge cost that can hit anywhere around $3500 dollars to $4000 dollars while booking flights for Africa.

2) Furthermore, travellers can also save money from booking tours as a combo or bundle deal. It is completely up to the customer to decide if he wants to take a one day package, 2-3 days package or four days package.

3) In fact, we at Nature Bound Africa help tourists a lot in saving money by showing them some of the affordable packages that are suitable for their African Safari Tour.

Because After Climbing Kilimanjaro You Deserve A Damn Good Reward

Actually, everyone who is climbing the mountain should be rewarded, here’s why:-

1) First of all, it is a non-technical mountain making even the climb a non-technical one, but in no way, it’s an easy climb because a climber has to face numerous difficulties like high altitude sickness, unpredictable weather and many more.

2) It is a type of mountain that is capable of pushing anyone to limits and draining them emotionally & physically and in order to complete the climb on such a mountain, one will need an incredible will power & patience like anything.

3) For this reason, the views itself are a big reward for those who make it to the top beside getting the success of climbing to the top.

Booking With Nature Bound Africa

This is what you will get after booking with Nature Bound Africa are as follows:-

Now booking with Nature Bound Africa for African Safari is the best source in the region to book for Kilimanjaro trekking plus safaris, as we have various options & packages that will help you in combining a climb with a full-fledged safari tour.

Apart from that, we will also let you compare multiple routes and offer you a free quote so you and every other backpacker can choose the best fit at the best prices. In fact, you can also use this interactive site for selecting your limitations and preferences and narrow down the trip by tailor making the package.

Please contact us @ natureboundafrica.com to know more about Kilimanjaro & its routes and the packages are mouth-watering enough that you will not mind booking any one of them while on your first visit to the site. You can also go through our other blogs as well by visiting our page @ natureboundafrica.com/travel-blog/.

Love is the most powerful emotion of everyone’s life. But falling in love, getting love or being in love is so magical. There is a destination for love, which is marriage. And there is a destination for marriage, which is the honeymoon. Honeymoon is the most important thing in everybody’s life. Then, where are you planning to have your honeymoon destination? It’s a tricky question. This question arises in everybody’s mind. And the answer is so the most favoured African Honeymoon Safari. Yes. It is the best destination for all the honeymooners.

Africa is the best-suited destination for honeymoon. The beauty of Africa spread all over the world. The royal safari honeymoon is famous here. People come and get their life’s best pictures, Images and experience here. This is meant for the best-experienced place in the world. Previously mentioned, it’s so easy to get here. Here is how.

What Makes Safari Honeymoon In South Africa Special?

The honeymoon in all the places is quite a bit the same. You go there and experience love, fulfil all the demands and share the beauty with each other. But in Africa, You will get to know about the safari. Encounter Africa’s national animal, the lion, and the king of the jungle. To see the wilderness and enjoy their beauty is the most amazing experience one could ever have. An African Safari is so beautiful that it attracts everybody. It is so unique that people enjoy their honeymoon with the safari. It is so specific to the visitors that they can enjoy the hotels, Lodges and at the same time can enjoy the safari. All the tours are the same, but the safari with tours are amazing to see and experience. It opens the heart. That’s why it is so fantastic.

Explore Love In The Wilderness

The people who are going to explore honeymoon safari are the wisest and bravest ones. They knew that they can see the animals as well as the beauty that resides here. To see the wild animals are so extremely mind-boggling and amazing. In African Wildlife Safari you can travel, Take good foods, Sleep goodly and explore the new horizons of safari. In Uganda, The mighty Gorillas catch the eyes of the traveller and give them beautiful smiles in their faces. To see the animals in Africa is so amazing that no one should miss it.

Romance Amid Unspoiled Bushveld

The beauty of Africa is indescribable in some few words. It is way beyond that. The beauty And romantic locations are far beyond our imagination. It refreshes the mind and elevates the soul. People who go there get in contact with the magnificent trees and the beautiful bushes. The bushes are so beautifully grown that our eyes catch them with more love and appreciation. With the help of a guide, it is so easy to explore in Africa and get the beauty of nature. It’s so refreshing and eye-opening.

A Quaint Nest For The Lovebirds

In African Honeymoon Safari, It is good to see the view again and again. That’s never-ending. The lovebirds will enjoy the place. The well-furnished lodges, Hotels and living places are amazing. There the marbles and the flourishing styles are outstanding. People and the lovebirds came and visit the place and get to know the natural beauty of it. Living there is so pleasant that it opens the heart. It’s the heart to heart connection for the lovebirds. Because of the things that the heart can feel and understand, the mind cannot relate to. It is not logical or mystical.

A Treat For The Newlyweds

The African Safari Tours is truly made for the newlyweds. They can come and enjoy the beauty of it. There is no match to it in the whole world. This is a whole bunch of things to explore for the newlyweds. They can come, Visit the place and enjoy the beauty of it. Nature gives the same opportunity to everyone who comes to see it and explore it. Among most of the people, the newlyweds come here. They know that this place is so amazing to explore and get the most out of travelling here.

Dating With The Big Five Of Africa

In this place, the big five means the five big animals in Africa. Those are the lion, the elephant, the rhinoceros, the Leopard, and the Cape buffalo. The combination of these five animals is called the big five in Africa. It is developed by the hunters. To hunt on foot, this is called the most difficult things to do.

There are so many places to visit in the world. But Africa is the most fabulous one to visit with another partner in honeymoon time. Want to know more? Enjoy amazing wildlife with all our African Honeymoon Safari which suit your budget and taste for adventure. Visit Us @ natureboundafrica.com for any inquiries or bookings to our African Honeymoon SafariPackage!

How to Take Children on an African Safari

Despite all the warnings, a trip to Tanzania with a toddler and an 8-year-old turned out to be a dream vacation for the whole family

A LITTLE AFTER dawn, our safari guide headed to the less-explored eastern part of Serengeti National Park. He slowed the Toyota Land Cruiser at a patch of green that interrupted the straw-colored Tanzanian landscape, so barren that it made our mouths feel dry.

“There’s a hyena under that tree,” he said.

My husband, Nitin, and I stood up in the vehicle and instinctively shushed our groggy children, Naya and Riya, then ages 8 and 1. Looking through binoculars at the tree, we saw only a blur.

“Hey!” the baby shouted. “Hello? Hello?” “Shhhhhh!” we scolded.

And suddenly, there was the hyena—headed straight for us. Creatures like these see young animals (including humans) as easy prey; once you get over the creepy factor, this can make for a cool wildlife-viewing experience—at least from the relative safety of a getaway car.

Months earlier, when we’d told friends that we planned to take our children to Africa, they mostly admonished us. The water’s not safe. The bugs are vicious. The kids will get bored on long drives. They won’t remember any of it.

Their doubts only emboldened us. We’d lived in India through my eldest daughter’s toddler years and considered ourselves seasoned travelers. The three of us horsebacked across Kashmir, rode elephants into the grasslands of Assam, took a palanquin into the caves of Ajanta. Then, in 2008, we moved back to the U.S. We bought a house. We had a second child. Vacations became three-day weekends in the Catskills or Berkshires, beach rentals up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Our Facebook photos started to look like everyone else’s.

I missed adventure and wanted to expose my children to more. Tanzania felt like a logical destination. Its pleasant dry season runs from June through October, overlapping with the kids’ summer holiday. My college roommate lives in Dar es Salaam, so we had an in-country contact in case of an emergency.

African safaris are attracting a lot more families these days, including some with very young children, according to tour operators. When planning our trip, which included stops in Istanbul and Zanzibar, I requested safari quarters where little ones would be welcome (many lodges bar children under 12). To our surprise, we were offered high chairs, baby cots and special kid-friendly meals as we made our way around Tanzania.

We started in Tanzania’s most populous city, Dar es Salaam, took a day to acclimate and continued to Kilimanjaro, where we embarked on six days of safari. The Serengeti ecosystem, which straddles Tanzania and Kenya, is known for the largest migration of mammals in the world, but they were on the Kenyan side by the time we arrived. We stuck mostly to the central Serengeti to catch better views of lions; we saw plenty of zebras and wildebeest in the lesser-known Tarangire National Park in northern Tanzania. Ngorongoro Crater, an immense inactive volcano caldera, gave us a chance to see all these animals in one place. Feeling cramped from days of driving, we also took a memorable hike around its rim.

Safaris, it turns out, are a dream vacation with and for kids. There is nothing like the amazement on a child’s face when giraffes and zebras are so close that you can smell them. Teachable moments abound—about nature and evolution, power and the world order. And though safari travel tends to be luxurious and sheltered from reality, having children along facilitates interaction with locals. Everywhere we went, Tanzanians wanted to hold our baby, pinch her cheeks, make her laugh. They gave our older child candy and pats on the head and encouraged her attempts to speak Swahili.

THE LOWDOWN: SAFARI WITH KIDS IN TANZANIA’S SERENGETI

Getting There: Dar es Salaam and Nairobi are the most common entry points for visitors to the Serengeti. From there, you can take shorter flights to Arusha, Kilimanjaro or Seronera to get closer to the parks. Visas can be purchased for cash upon arrival ($100) but if you want to avoid lines, do it in the U.S.

Staying There: Tour operators generally book safari lodging, and Duma Explorer planned our trip (dumaexplorer.com). In Arusha, Arumeru River Lodge is a serviceable first or last stop, with great food and views (from about $270 a night, arumerulodge.com). Its restaurant has high chairs and will accommodate children’s whims. Rhino Lodge near Ngorongoro Crater is bare-bones, but animals wander right onto the property in the morning and evening (from about $270 a night, including meals, ngorongoro.cc). Tarangire Safari Lodge, inside Tarangire National Park, recently added a spa, with a massage table that overlooks the river (from about $400 a night, including meals, tarangiresafarilodge.com). Duma Explorer’s tented Chaka Camp in the Serengeti offers king-size beds, hot showers and private porches (from about $690 a night, including meals, chakacamp.com).

Eating There: In tent lodges, cooks whip up whatever is freshest. You can request special meals for children, such as pasta or rice. Maasai-raised beef is not to be missed. Pack nonperishable snacks for long car rides; tour operators provide bottled water.

Spending There: Tanzania is largely a cash economy, so bring at least $1,000 for tips, souvenirs and incidentals, or plan to stop at ATMs outside the park entrances.

Taking Children Along: Consult your pediatrician about vaccinations and medications. The Sit ‘n’ Stroll, a car seat that turns into a stroller, is a good investment for any globe-trotting family ($330, lillygold.com).

During a hike through a village outside Arusha, the largest city in northern Tanzania, the baby delighted in all the attention. “Mtoto, mtoto,” children chanted, using the Swahili word for baby as they ran after us and colobus monkeys swung over our heads. Our eldest grew silent when the children begged for her sunglasses and stroked her skin as if to determine if it was different from theirs. Later, at dinner, we reminded her that the poverty she had witnessed was much more the norm than the Tanzania we saw on safari.

Guidebooks warned of something else I might have to discuss with the children: Mating, notably among the lions. We didn’t see any mating, but in July, the landscape of short brown grass exposes other primal behaviors. One day in the Serengeti, we came upon a pride of lions, and watched them for nearly an hour. My youngest stared at the lioness, just steps from her car seat. The eldest fiddled with the binoculars.

When the lioness started walking differently, Ebeneezer Emanuel, the same guide who showed us the hyena, warned that we might be about to see a kill. He gestured at the children as if to ask, “Is that OK?” We nodded.

The lioness crept up behind a pack of dancing gazelles and waited. We waited. I prayed my children would stay quiet. And she pounced. A baby gazelle was dragged under a tree to be eaten.

“So the female lions are stronger?” my daughter asked Ebeneezer.

“Yes,” he said. “They are much better hunters.”

“That is so cool.”

Seeing the kill inspired more serious dinnertime conversation. “How can the gazelles dance around so much knowing a lion might eat them at anytime?” my daughter wondered.

“Perhaps that is precisely why they let themselves be so happy,” I said.

Between game drives, we returned to our lodge or tent and let the girls run around and get out their own wild sides. I had packed an iPad loaded with kids’ videos in case they grew restless, but we never needed it; the children were much happier watching natural dramas unfold before them.

Also unnecessary were the dozens of packets of instant macaroni and cheese we’d brought. As my daughters devoured roast chicken and cassava stew, I felt sheepish for brushing off our friends’ skepticism when I’d clearly had a healthy dose of it myself.

Photography tips: How to shoot motion

Motion blur may be a little passé these days but, done well, this easy-to-master technique can transform travel and wildlife images into masterpieces.

When you take a picture, light reflecting from the subject hits the camera’s sensor and is recorded. If the shutter opens and closes very quickly, there’s no time for light from moving portions of your image to “˜smear’ across the pixels of your sensor. However, as shutter speed slows, the “˜smear’ of light increases. Many photographers use this to make fantastic images.

With moving subjects, shooting slow exposures from a tripod can emphasise the movement of your subject relative to its background. The subject in motion is blurred while all around it is pin sharp. Think of those shots you may have seen of ghost-like waterfalls and rivers.

Pan with your subjects

Another simple technique is to pan with or follow your subjects. This means that, relative to your camera, the subject in motion is steady and the background is moving. Consequently, the subject in motion is sharp while the background is completely blurred. Think of wildlife photographers shooting moving animals or herds, or motoring journalists trying to emphasise the speed of a car. Ironically many of the motion shots used in car adverts are shot using very slow exposures while pushing the car by hand.

The amount of blur is dependent on four factors:

The angle of motion relative to the camera: subjects moving perpendicular to the lens blur more than subjects moving towards the lens.

Speed of the subject: the faster the subject, the more it blurs.

Magnification of the lens: the bigger the focal length of the lens, the more the subject will blur.

Distance from the lens: the closer a subject is to the lens, the more it blurs.

Do it yourself

Firstly, find a suitable subject; cars passing on a road in the early evening work well. Set your camera to aperture priority and select a high f-stop (a small aperture – try f11 and above) that results in slow shutter speed. See below for the shutter speeds at which certain subjects will begin to blur.

Try both techniques. With your camera on a tripod, shoot scenes of passing cars and watch how they blur and the lights streak. Next take your camera off your tripod and pan evenly with your subject as it passes, snapping shots as you go.

Guideline shutter speeds

Approximate shutter speeds for a short zoom lens – 55 to 90 mm – that will begin to blur on a subject moving at the following speeds approximately 30 metres away.

How to take the perfect holiday photograph

Follow a few simple tips to eradicate blurred sunsets and headless family members in your travel snaps

Even the best holiday memories fade – but photographs never do. At least, not these days with digital technology enabling us all to keep those happy snaps forever. But what if you struggle to take pictures you’ll want to treasure? Do you always chop people’s heads off, or end up with out of focus landscapes? Read on and let a professional show you how it’s done.

Invest in your cameraDon’t scrimp on time or cash when choosing the right camera. Do your research whether you are buying a full digital SLR, a compact camera or even just using a smartphone as your main travel camera. There is no going back, so read the reviews and go into a store to ask questions face to face even if you later buy online.

Get all the gearYou’ve got your camera, but make sure to get all the other bits and bobs you might need on the road; that means spare memory cards, lens-cleaning cloths and, most importantly, a spare battery. Ignore this advice at your peril – you’ll remember it ruefully when a lion vaults over your safari truck just after your battery dies.

Stabilise that imageSo many gorgeous sunrise and sunset shots, as well as many landscape images, work best with a tripod. You don’t need a huge man-sized tripod rig that takes out passers by as you turn corners. There are plenty of compact tripods these days and you can even buy tiny little tripods for smartphones.

ComposeCompose, compose and then compose some more. Don’t just snap dull shots of the Eiffel Tower. Think about closing in and shooting some of the detail, or adding some people for extra interest – and use whatever light you have. Put simply, the more effort and time you put into composition, the better your pictures will be.

People not antsWhen you are shooting photographs that aim to sum up the spirit of a great holiday don’t have the stars of the show standing miles away. Even if the backdrop is dramatic the people are the main focus here and you want to capture their enjoyment, even if they are a little camera shy, so bring them into the foreground.

Tell a storyHome in on details to tell the story of a place. For a market, first shoot a wide shot from a distance to set the scene, then move in slowly, finishing with close-ups of food and dashes of local prices or language to add more colour. You should have everything you need now to make a great montage for your wall back home.

Get techieIf you have invested in an expensive DSLR don’t just rely on the automatic modes. Get creative and experiment with various combinations of ISO settings and different shutter speeds. This will enable you to take more sophisticated photographs, as well as meaning you can call yourself a “proper photographer”.